National Strategy for the Exploitation of Inert Materials (ENEI 2025-2030).

This Resolution approves the National Strategy for the Exploitation of Inert Materials (ENEI 2025–2030), aimed to transform Cabo Verde’s extraction sector into a modern, regulated, and environmentally sustainable pillar of national development. Its primary objectives include addressing widespread informality, illegal extraction, environmental degradation, and territorial inequalities in the supply of sand, gravel, pyroclasts, and other aggregates. The resolution seeks to ensure responsible and resilient use of these essential resources by strengthening governance through legislative reform, introducing multi‑year licensing, enforcing environmental guarantees, and creating new institutional bodies such as the National Technical Unit for Geology and the National Council for the Exploitation of Inert Materials. It also aims to produce reliable geological data, improve coordination among authorities, and align the sector with national and international commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals. Additionally, the resolution outlines strategic objectives for reducing illegal sand extraction and ensuring each inhabited island has at least one licensed quarry. It promotes environmental recovery plans, territorial cohesion, and social inclusiveness, while enhancing the economic contribution of the sector with a target of reaching 1% of GDP by 2030. The strategy emphasizes the development of a comprehensive national geoportal, capacity‑building initiatives, investment attraction, and the integration of environmental and territorial planning to mitigate ecological impacts such as coastal erosion and habitat loss.